While RIM’s 2012 roadmap that leaked out a few days ago gave us a potential timeline for the release of the company’s first BlackBerry 10 smartphone, it didn’t provide us with what we have been craving. An image. Well, today, CrackBerry has unearthed an image of what is apparently the BlackBerry London, a device that [...]
While we know BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 is on the way, we still don’t know exactly when RIM will be rolling it out. However, there is a date that seems to be popping up more than most making it the front-runner as the release date. That date is February 17th which just so happens to [...]
Yesterday, a rumored RIM 2012 roadmap revealed the company’s plans for 2012 and beyond. However, there was no hard evidence to back up the claims. Today though, BGR has released the goods and what we see are a bunch of BlackBerry Curve devices, a 3G BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and a possibility that we won’t see [...]
It appears that RIM’s 2012/Q1 2013 roadmap has leaked out today revealing the devices that new CEO Thorsten Heins will see to the market. If they even make it that far. The roadmap reveals that RIM has a few, but not a lot of hardware on the way this year with the company planning on [...]
Over the weekend RIM, the maker’s of BlackBerry devices announced that the company was abandoning the two CEO structure that had helped lead the company to success and more recently to failures in the tablet space and in competing with iPhone and Android. Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have stepped down, handing the reins of the battered [...]
Research in Motion had announced the changing of the guards. The BlackBerry-maker and QNX owner has announced that co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie are stepping down and that effective immediately, Thorsten Heins has been named the new President and CEO of the company. In addition to Heins being named to RIM’s operational head, the [...]
Nielsen’s Mobile Media Report for the last quarter of 2011 reveals that sales of the iPhone not only enriched Apple’s coffers but also brought more new smartphone owners into the fold and increased the company’s mobile marketshare. Several factors go into this. For the first time the iPhone was available on three of the four [...]
Earlier today, we reported on a rumor that stated that RIM was in discussions with Samsung about a possible buyout of the company. That rumor, according to Samsung, is completely false. Company spokesperson James Chung has told Reuters that not only has the company not been contacted by Research in Motion but that Samsung is [...]
With its BlackBerry 10 operating system and hardware delayed until the middle of 2012, it’s no surprise that we’re seeing a report that RIM is not only in talks with companies to license its operating system but is apparently leaning towards selling divisions of the company or even the entire company outright. And right now, [...]
It would appear that RIM hasn’t given up on the tablet business just yet as N4BB is reporting that the company is gearing up to release not just one, but two new BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in 2012. RIM will apparently be launching a 7-inch version of the PlayBook in April, which will be 3G, and [...]
Shutting the barn door after the horse has left the barn might be the best way to describe this. Maybe not. Regardless, you can certainly say that this move by RIM doesn’t exactly jive with that metaphor about no wine being released before its time. In fact you can say that RIM isn’t that good [...]
Amidst all of Verizon’s Android announcements was one regarding another BlackBerry 7 powered device called the BlackBerry Curve 9370 which will be the first global ready BlackBerry Curve for Big Red. The carrier has announced that the device will be hitting its 3G network, sorry no 4G LTE here, on January 19th. The device is [...]
2011 was a rough year for RIM and the company is hoping to rebound in 2012 with the release of its next operating system, BlackBerry 10. RIM has already said that handsets with the new OS won’t be arriving until later in the year but the company has now informed Pocket-lint that it will be [...]
Research in Motion is now offering a sale on its PlayBook tablet, pricing the 16, 32, and 64 GB models at $299 each with shipping included. As the BlackBerry-maker has been struggling to move its most inexpensive 16 GB models at regular retail price, my guess is that there is now an excess of 32 [...]
Handset insurance provider Asurion, which partners with most U.S. cellular carriers to offer insurance on smartphones and devices, now lists the BlackBerry Torch 10000 model on its website alongside Apple’s iPhone 5. As the iPhone 5 is rumored to be launching in Fall 2012, the BlackBerry Torch 10000 model may not be launched for a [...]
As always this isn’t a list of gadgets, geegaws, accessories, or Apps. This wish list is about things I’d like to see happen in mobile tech in general. As always I’m an impatient old elf and would prefer to see movement here sooner rather than later. Here are links to last year’s wish list as [...]
What was once a field of dreams two years ago is now littered with casualties. Hopes and hype have been dashed. Strategies have been changed and are changing again. Generals have fallen. The fortunes of competitors have been ransacked, as others continue to enrich their treasuries. The fallout thus far will most likely be just [...]
While content is still sparse and limited for the BlackBerry Playbook, running on the BlackBerry Tablet OS, users of the tablet will now be happy to know that they too can join iOS and Android in partaking in the game of Angry Birds. The tablet edition of Angry Birds is now available in BlackBerry App [...]
Last week, RIM confirmed the bad news. BlackBerry phones with the company’s new BlackBerry 10 software would not be shipping until the latter half of 2012. RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, at the time, stated that the reasons was because RIM wanted to wait and outfit the devices with a new chipset, presumably LTE in nature. [...]
2011 hasn’t been a very kind year to BlackBerry maker RIM, or fans of BlackBerry for that matter, but today there is something to cheer about. After months of waiting, Spotify has finally released its official mobile application for BlackBerry devices which is an exciting development for not only those that are already using the [...]
Making predictions for what is to come in the New Year in this topsy-turvey world is both an easy chore and a difficult exercise. Just about everything in any field of human endeavor, much less the world of mobile tech, is in such a state of transition, or in a state of wait-and-see these days, [...]
The latest leaks suggest that Amazon and a Microsoft-Nokia partnership may both be looking to acquire Canadian smartphone Research in Motion. After slumping stock prices and declining market share for the company’s BlackBerry smartphone and PlayBook tablet, Research in Motion is struggling to stay competitive in the market with touch competition from Apple’s iOS platform, [...]
It’s the end of the year and its time for wrap-ups, predictions and more crystal ball gazing than you can shake a branch of holly at. As usual before I make any predictions for 2012, I go back and grade my predictions for the this year now ending. The one thing that is predictable as [...]
U.S. wireless carrier Sprint is updating its latest BlackBerry Bold 9930 and BlackBerry Torch 9850 smartphones to BlackBerry OS 7.1, which brings mobile hotspot capabilities to these new BlackBerry devices on Sprint’s 3G Now Network. Mobile hotspot capabilities would allow these BlackBerry phones to share their 3G mobile broadband connections over WiFi to other WiFi-capable [...]
RIM’s Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis, while speaking on the company’s earnings call today, confirmed that devices with RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system (formally known as BBX) won’t be arriving until the latter half of 2012. The reason? According to Lazaridis, it’s because the company is going to be outfitting the devices with a new chip [...]
We have already seen what is thought to be RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry 10 powered powered BlackBerry London and now we are seeing the first image of a device that is being called the BlackBerry Milan, a device that also is apparently powered by the software formally known as BBX. Milan just so happens to be [...]
Research in Motion had intended on calling its next-generation BlackBerry operating system BBX, a name that would have merged the QNX and BlackBerry OS together, but due to losing a legal fight for trademark infringement BBX is no more. Instead, RIM is naming the next-generation OS BlackBerry 10, essentially spelling out the Roman numeral ‘X.’ [...]
While having recently lost a bulk of its smartphone market share in recent years, RIM is hoping to conquer the world with its BBX OS come 2012. BlackBerry-dedicated site CrackBerry had recently come across a few leaked code names for some upcoming BBX devices for 2012, all of which bear the names of world-famous cities. [...]
Research in Motion may be ready to admit to defeat, at least when it comes to hardware. Facing a decline in BlackBerry users and stock price, the company is taking steps to remain relevant and profitable in the long term. This week RIM announced its new Mobile Fusion service, which will allow iPhone and Android [...]
The BlackBerry Surfboard is now rumored to be Research in Motion’s first smartphone based on the BBX OS platform. BBX was announced as at this year’s BlackBerry DevCon as a means to merge the BlackBerry operating system together with the QNX OS, which the PlayBook tablet is built upon. Recently, a device with the codename [...]
It appears that the BlackBerry PlayBook has gone the way of the HP TouchPad as stock on Best Buy’s website has dwindled into non-existence amidst reports that the retailer has begun canceling orders of those that placed orders for RIM’s tablet. Best Buy’s forums are currently rife with complaints from people who say that Best [...]
While we’ve been busy telling you about all of the gadgets and gizmos that you should be buying this holiday season, it’s time to switch gears a little bit and tell you about a few things that shouldn’t be on your wish list this 2011 holiday season. We know that there are going to be [...]
With the holiday shopping season about to kick into high gear with Black Friday around the corner, sales of Research in Motion’s smartphones running the BlackBerry 7 operating system are beginning to slow following an early promising start. According to Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley, retail checks for BlackBerry sales across major U.S. carriers are [...]
Canadian smartphone-maker Research in Motion has confirmed that some BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 devices suffer from a bug that would render the device a brick after being left on the charger overnight. RIM says that the company is working on a software update to rectify the problem. Essentially, at night, when the Bold 9900 [...]
With the launch of the Kindle Fire, both through Amazon and Best Buy recently, it looks like Best Buy is discounting Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook. Various reports online show that the 16 GB model could be purchased at $199.99, the 32 GB model at $299.99 and the 64 GB model at a surprising $229.99, [...]
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